The Archive · 1939

Fierce Fighting Going On Near Wuning Japanese Aircraft Bombing Chinese Lines

Chungking, Mar. 30.

Fighting on the Wuning front is continuing in the hills five miles north-east of Wuning, according to a Chinese despatch.

Chinese forces in south Honan province, it adds, have launched three assaults on Sinyang, on the Peiping-Hankow railway, with Chinese artillery heavily shelling the Japanese troops holding out inside the city walls, At the same time, Japanese aircraft are reported to be bombing the Chinese troops surrounding Sinyang. The Japanese are also stated to be rushing reinforcements from Yingshan to support their Sinyang defenders—Reuter.

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